Melissa went to see the specialist yesterday about her wrist. He said it has healed well so she doesn’t have to have surgery on it – Thank goodness. He took off the cast, gave her a removable splint and sent her on her way. She is due back at work on Monday. I am not sure they will know what to do with her – she had only been at her new job for a few weeks when she got hurt on June 2nd so this will be like starting all over again.
Last night Steve and I went out to Cochrane to see the extractor plant. One of my co-workers lives near the plant and said they were having an open house of sorts so off we went. The tour guide had his wife, daughter and her three children on the bus as well. His grandson, who was about 4 kept asking if they could go and see the fire engines but Grandpa kept having to say no so he was rather disappointed.
I was glad that I had taken an Oil and Gas introductory course earlier this year because the lingo was somewhat familiar to me. NGL doesn’t mean much by itself but I knew it meant Natural Gas Liquids which are Methane, Ethane, Propane, Butane and Pentane. This particular plant extracts the Methane from the NGLs and then sends it down the pipeline to the next processor. Obviously there is a whole lot more to the process than that but it was fascinating.
Steve enjoyed taking some pictures and he is planning to return to take some more. It was good to get him out of the house and doing something different. By the time we got home, even though it was only 9:00, we both fell into bed and were fast asleep by the time our heads hit the pillows - too much fresh air, I guess!
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